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Anyone else try to scale down the commercial lean and low tomato trellising method? Thought id show some pics of my attempts. For me this trellising style is as much about disease prevention as it is efficient use of space

Now that is great use of the area you have on your deck. I see a whole lot of plants on the ground too. What else are you growing?

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Now that is great use of the area you have on your deck. I see a whole lot of plants on the ground too. What else are you growing?

Thanks I grow all kinds of stuff. Things i like to eat personally and some neighbors and friends like to buy. Lots of brassica greens mixes, lettuce mixes, kale, chard, living bibb lettuce in the nft system, 6 varieties of citrus, hydroponic seascape stawberries and most of all tomatoes - all the good stuff

Do it I've also converted it for vertical strawberries in the past. The template works for many plants

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Originally Posted by jtjmartin

Brix:

What size containers are those for your tomatoes? Did you later add soil mix to the container for the roots to expand in to?

Looks like some of the same issues I deal with: yard size and usable area due to some shading?

Jeff

In the hydroponic system those are nursery #3 containers in a 3x3 foot tray. I did fill the tray with a mix of grow rocks and hydroton in that one picture. The resulting root mass was pretty impressive. I have pics somewhere I'm sure

I am quite certainly limited by space. I am a single story house squeezed between 2 and 3 story houses so lots of shadows that move seasonally. There is standing room only at this point outside but it works for me

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Originally Posted by BigVanVader

Dude that stuff looks great!

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Ricky Shaw

Beautiful work!

Appreciate it I like to grow things in every imaginable way. It's all about the learning